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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?
(a) Stygmatizing
(b) disconcerting
(c) Arguing
(d) Signifying

2. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that involve faith
(b) things that have no known answers
(c) things that have absolute answers like math and science
(d) things that have to do with the supernatural

3. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when money changes hands
(b) when any promise is made
(c) when something is sold or traded
(d) when something is transferred or traded for future payment

4. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the teacher
(b) the sovreign
(c) the minister
(d) the banker

5. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
(a) religion
(b) different interests
(c) restless desire
(d) different abilities

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?

2. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?

3. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

4. Why can passion for power be dangerous?

5. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

(see the answer key)

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